"What is born each night and dies each dawn? What flickers red and warm like a flame, yet is not fire? What is like ice but burns?" ("Turandot")
I love words, their origins, their taste, their shades of meaning... I celebrate self-expression in whatever medium, sculpture, photography, music, cinema, painting, textiles, dance, word crafting...
Marcia, my friend in the UK does amazing, dazzling work in textiles. This is one of my favorites: "Renaissance Woman"
Yaxche, Mayan tree of life and our sphere (by moi).
My interests go from macro to micro, from space to the genome. I am into free style martial arts and racquetball. I've travelled throughout Europe and South America. I am partial to red wines, appassionata di Brunello di Montalcino, especially vintage 1990, and also Lambrusco, on account of Pavarotti. I believe that a well-cooked meal (I'm thinking Minestra di Pane) is particularly good reheated the following day (rebollita). Also, as with any good meal, it ought to be served with a Tuscan red wine, like Sassicaia. Long-standing passions are: antique roses, Paganini, Paso Fino horses, and Milan Kundera. I am intrigued by Giacometti, dazzled by Kurosawa.
This is Jaranero (it means "fighter" or "troublemaker"). He looks like a bit of both. Paso Finos were the mount of the Spaniards when they came to the new world. They are now part of our culture and heritage, something we have come to own and cherish.
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I am enticed by red Ferraris. After being at Hockenheimring I can say that life *does* begin at 200 mph.
Tesoro mio ha vinto - Barrichello ti amo!
"I don't have to be what you want me to be; I'm free to be what I want" - Muhammed Ali
Off the top of my head, Jamie & Adam from Mythbusters. They have my dream job!
DJ Myke (and Boomie, of course :). Not only is he an incredibly talented writer, he is also a simply amazing person, always reaching out to others and bringing people together. Thank you for always being there for me.
These are strong, defined women who are a source of encouragement and inspiration to me.
Rage Against The Machine...so fierce
I am into all kinds of music and I'm constantly immersed in it. From MIDI controlled, propane powered explosion organ sounds to opera and most anything in between if it agrees with my sense of genuine. Off the top of my head: Vladimir Visotsky, Pantera (Cowboys from hell, gotta love 'em. RIP Dimebag), blues (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, BB King, Jimmy Reed, Stevie Ray Vaughn), Waldemar Bastos, Vladimir Horowitz, Ali Farka Toure, Gilberto Gil, Dinu Lipatti, Callas (la divina), Mario Pacheco (Um outro olhar), Carlos Paredes (fado music from the end of the world), Jeff Buckley, Ibrahim Ferrer... And from myspace: Manoel Macia, Verbl Tha Real, Timoth!, Crather, Bai Kamara Jr, Audun Kleive, Random, Yoriyos (he is from the UK and not only does he know about wounded knee, but wants his heart buried there. How intriguing is that?), Aire gitano (slooow burn)... Then there's NaRai. Now, that's woman power. She redefines belting out a song. Psychic Tribal Orchestra's "Lizard" tickles my psyche with undulating galactic contrails and disturbed solar winds.
As for live: Kelly Hatcher tears it up!
Hot blues from the heart of Big D
Havana NRG (New Rhythm Generation)
"La fusión es su credo. El trabajo es su fe. Y el ritmo es su milagro." Goes through the soul straight to the feet!
Music that is a constant since childhood: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elvis, Sinatra, Santana, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, and Bob Marley.
Anything by Kundera, Exupery, and my aunt, Irma Prego. But also, and not in any specific order, rhyme or reason: Kesey, Robert Graves, Dan Brown, Vargas Llosa, Tolkien, Frank Herbert (Muad'Dib! Muad'Dib!), Brendan Kennelly, JK Rowling (love Harry Potter and Quidditch), Brautigan, Neal Stephenson, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Vladimir Nabokov (gotta love Luzhin), Faulkner (how could I not like a writer who whipped out most of his books for booze?), Hemingway (writing so clean, pure and simple), Daniel Keyes (Algernon!), Alexander Pushkin, William Gibson, Chekhov (Ward #6), Kafka, Orwell, Asimov, Heinlein (I grok!), Suskind, Anne Rice, Hesse, Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Steven Pressfield, Viktor Frankl, Cavafy (Ithaca!), Sartre (being is becoming), Seutonius, and of course, Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native." :)
My grandmother, a woman of gentility and grace. She taught me to love words and languages. Continues to teach me to show kindness. I miss her.